The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 77
So they resolved to go in a body to the King, and all to send in their papers.
Who acts: officers · What happens: resolve, go, send · To what, where: body, papers
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 resolved | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 send | mark |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 papers | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 papers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 send | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | officers = officer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | officers = officer not said here | a body | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | officers = officer not said here | officers's papers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in paper=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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